Good advise - not always convienent but something I could try this year.
To be honest, I am not a huge "OMIGOD I CAN'T BE AROUND ALCOHOL!!" person. I drink. I enjoy drinking. The issue of alcohol sales in the registration line is that everyone is getting on their high horse with "ONLY YOU CAN PROTECT YOU - ITS NOT THE HOTEL'S JOB OR THE CON'S JOB TO STOP ADULTS FROM DRINKING!" - and my point is - If I am not not drinking, but I am forced to stand butthole to butthole in a line in a steaming hot room with no ventalation and increasingly angry shouting people who are being plied with alcohol - how is it *my* fault for not protecting myself?
I'm not a huge congoer, but I have never seen this at the other cons I have been to. The people getting crazy in their hotel rooms, or having too much in the bars, yes, but the beer stations in the registration line no....
And the whole tone here is "Don't like it, don't go" which fine, thats an option. I could be wrong... I don't think the getting drunk in the registration line from hell is a *standard* con going appearence since I've only seen it at D*con.
I thought I was making a reasonable suggestion, as opposed to suggesting the con go "dry" (unreasonable even if I did have a problem with alcohol) or that there be security guards every where... removing the beer carts from the registration line might tone down the party atmosphere a bit.
Re: Expectations need to be managed.
To be honest, I am not a huge "OMIGOD I CAN'T BE AROUND ALCOHOL!!" person. I drink. I enjoy drinking. The issue of alcohol sales in the registration line is that everyone is getting on their high horse with "ONLY YOU CAN PROTECT YOU - ITS NOT THE HOTEL'S JOB OR THE CON'S JOB TO STOP ADULTS FROM DRINKING!" - and my point is - If I am not not drinking, but I am forced to stand butthole to butthole in a line in a steaming hot room with no ventalation and increasingly angry shouting people who are being plied with alcohol - how is it *my* fault for not protecting myself?
I'm not a huge congoer, but I have never seen this at the other cons I have been to. The people getting crazy in their hotel rooms, or having too much in the bars, yes, but the beer stations in the registration line no....
And the whole tone here is "Don't like it, don't go" which fine, thats an option. I could be wrong... I don't think the getting drunk in the registration line from hell is a *standard* con going appearence since I've only seen it at D*con.
I thought I was making a reasonable suggestion, as opposed to suggesting the con go "dry" (unreasonable even if I did have a problem with alcohol) or that there be security guards every where... removing the beer carts from the registration line might tone down the party atmosphere a bit.